{"id":465,"date":"2006-03-28T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/will_you_pray_a.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","slug":"will_you_pray_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/will_you_pray_a.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Will You Pray and Fast With Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow (Wednesday, March 29th) has been designated as a day of fasting and prayer for unity by the brothers who drafted the unity proposal<\/a> (PDF link). Here’s a confession: Being the sinful, cynical, prideful soul I am, I had originally not given that much consideration. Shame on me. I think this is an important moment in our fellowship of churches. Not so much whether this document gets signed or not, but what happens after all the dust this settles. Signatures or not, will we move forward in greater unity or less? Will we let this divide us or determine to unite regardless of the number of signatures on the page at the end of the day?
\nThat being said, I think that a bunch of prayer and fasting is in order. So, if you are so moved, would you pray and perhaps fast with us? Even if you find yourself here many days later, we could likely still use a prayer or two to be unified.
\nPray that we might come through this more united than before.
\nPray that God’s desire for us to be one as he and Jesus were one would be realized.
\nPray that Satan’s desire to make this an opportunity for him to divide us would be thwarted.
\nPray that I would be humble, trusting and gracious. (I really could use that.)
\nThank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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